General Discussion

There are many ways to show thanks. Donations are always helpful.

Letting people know why we use the tools that they spend so much time and energy developing can be an additional way to show thanks.

I was thinking about why I use PortableApps.

The answer: It makes my life better.

I seem to remember that there was a way to have the PA platform launcher *only* show up in the system tray, and not show up in the Windows 7 taskbar. Is there a way to do this?

Hello,

I'd like to know if there's a way to keep the menu open until I'm done launching the apps that I want to use. I need to run a few apps daily and it's kind of a bummer having to reopen the menu each time for the apps I need to run.

Any suggestions appreciated, thanks in advance,
~Garrett

Eleven antivirus engines are reporting that DTask Manager Portable contains malware. Most are reporting it contains a backdoor trojan.

The file is located at http://downloads.portableapps.com/portableapps/dtaskmanagerportable/DTas...

The antivirus tools reporting malware in this file include Avira, McAfee, Symantec, and TrendMicro.

The SHA256 hash is fda36c68742e7cf30d51e2bd23cf348d921463ab8a30123fce874a2dc60a9a1c

I apologize if this is the wrong forum to post this.

AquaSnap Portable, when run, reports there is a new version.

Do others agree that auto-updaters for apps should be turned off by default so that "phone home" calls are not automatically made?

Does Infrarecorder make any changes to the registry?
thank you

Have just completed the installation and configuration of an account in Port Tbird on a 32 GB thumb drive. Port Tbird does connect to the account in Yahoo and tells me there are 66 messages, but then is unable to download any of then, eventually telling me "There are no messages to download".

The account in Yahoo.com is one of my throw-away accounts and I confirmed that there were unread messages to download. However, Port Tbird attempts valiantly to do so, going around and around in circles, but finally gives up saying "There are no messages to download" which is untrue.

There are quite a few other apps which are already portable, but not a PA.com app. Since I don't exactly know how to create apps (and don't want to, actually. Some manage to update themselves and PA'ing them would most likely destroy that), I'd like to simply add links to those other programs to the launcher.

It seems that Free Download Manager, though licensed under the GPL, has not released their source code for the current versions. Gord contacted the developers and they replied that it's unavailable at present. I've posted more publicly in their forum here attempting to get it:
http://www.freedownloadmanager.org/board/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=17352

When I go to right click the application to Close Window to let Portable Apps run in the background, The whole thing closes. My computer was just upgraded to Windows 10.

On my Windows 8.1 OS, I was able to right click the application, Close Window and it still appeared in the System Tray.

I followed an article in another post about changing the Windows7TaskIcone=false to true, but that doesn't exist in the portableappsmenu.ini config file.

Please help.